Dispute. Now turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator with murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released so he calls the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said im not ready to lift the aid. They had this Senator Johnson, he writes a tenpage letter, very detailed, and he gives some remarkable detail and i would like to read it. Its on page 6. I this is Senator Johnson speaking, he said i asked him whether there was some kind of
arran arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. Without hesitation, Senator Johnson says, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed and he started cursing. He said, no way. President trump said no way. I would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reactionnt here was adamant, vehe
open the fbi s counterintelligence investigation was supplied by the fbi by a friendly foreign government. he says, i want to emphasize that this friendly foreign government did the right thing in supplying that information. the friendly foreign government hasly acted at all times as we would hope a close ally would. this is william barr s attempt to try to say thank you, australia, for helping the united states and just because my sereaction since then have bn very harshly critical of the fbi doesn t mean he wants to discount what australia did in this case. it s a if you have line to walk. when the inspector general is saying there would not have been this information if not for the helpti of australia and then yo havean a statement from john durham and from attorney general william barr, saying that no, in fact, i don t agree with that conclusion, it sth hard. so thenc attorney general is trying to keep both those doors open right now. but i will point to